Joey Davila

The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook

matet — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:52:23 +0000

A seasonal food journey with native Kentuckian Maggie Green, The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook takes home chefs through a year in a Kentucky kitchen with more than 200 recipes. With a focus on the cook’s activities in the kitchen, this book guides both aspiring and experienced cooks in the preparation of delicious meals using the delightful variety of foods found in Kentucky.
Green welcomes readers with her modern and accessible approach, incorporating seasonally available Kentucky produce in her recipes but also substituting frozen or canned food when necessary. She complements her year of recipes with tidbits about her own experiences with food, including regional food traditions she learned growing up in Lexington, attending the University of Kentucky, and raising a family in Northern Kentucky. The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook acknowledges the importance of Kentucky’s culinary and agricultural traditions while showing how southern culture shapes food choices and cooking methods.
Green appeals to modern tastes using up-to-date, easy to follow recipes and cooking techniques, and she addresses the concerns of contemporary cooks with regard to saving time, promoting good health, and protecting the environment. The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook contains a year’s worth of recipes and menus for everyday meals, holiday events, and special family occasions — all written with Kentucky flair.

Women’s Health South Africa – March 2012

matet — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:48:27 +0000

The trusted source of information for women who want to be fitter, healthier and happier than ever. The magazine includes well-researched health features, results-oriented fitness and nutrition tips, down-to-earth fashion and beauty coverage and relevant advice on sex and relationships. There is no magazine in South Africa that speaks to women the way they speak to each other, and by the time readers put the magazine down, they’ll feel like they’ve just had a conversation – and a few laughs – with their best friend.

Precalculus: Functions and Graphs, 12 edition

matet — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:41:35 +0000

Clear explanations, an uncluttered and appealing layout, and examples and exercises featuring a variety of real-life applications have made this book popular among students year after year. This latest edition of Swokowski and Cole’s PRECALCULUS: FUNCTIONS AND GRAPHS retains these features. The problems have been consistently praised for being at just the right level for precalculus students. The book also provides calculator examples, including specific keystrokes that show how to use various graphing calculators to solve problems more quickly. Perhaps most important–this book effectively prepares readers for further courses in mathematics.

Cosmopolitan South Africa – March 2012

matet — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:54:44 +0000

COSMOPOLITAN magazine is one of the most successful women’s glossy magazines in South Africa; an indispensable read for a tribe of loyal Fun, Fearless Females. COSMO is the magazine for woman in her freedom years, the ambitious young woman’s bible. The dominant force in the young girl’s life, from guys to beauty, sex, careers, fashion and money matters. It encourages women to embrace all that it means to be fun and fearless.

From Speech Physiology to Linguistic Phonetics

matet — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:51:39 +0000

Communicating by speech is seemingly one of the most natural activities for humans. However, despite its apparent obviousness and ease, speech production is a very complex activity with multiple levels of organization involved with transforming cognitive intent into a meaningful sequence of sounds. This book establishes a connection between the physiology of speech and linguistics, and provides a detailed account of speech production processes, indicating how various languages of the world make use of human anthropophonic capacities. The book also offers new insights into the possible ways in which articulatory-based phonetics and phonology might be unified, making it essential reading matter for anyone involved in this field. Numerous illustrations are included which enhance the reader’s understanding.

Grow It, Cook It – DK Publishing

matet — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:46:55 +0000

Grow It, Cook It is the children’s cookbook that starts with the seed of a good idea. More than a cookbook, this innovative book offers a fresh approach to healthy eating by getting children involved in food right from the start. Children will learn that when they eat a carrot, they’re biting into a root; salads are made up of leaves; and berries are the fruit and seeds of plants, encouraging an early appreciation of food and its origins. The recipes in the book take the homegrown fruits, vegetables, and herbs and use a variety of cooking methods and store-bought ingredients to transform them into truly homemade meals. All the “crops” can be grown in pots, so young chefs don’t even need a large garden to enjoy Grow It, Cook It.

MATLAB Primer, 7th Edition – Kermit Sigmon

matet — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:15:06 +0000

With the spread of the powerhouse MATLAB software into nearly every area of math, science, and engineering, it is important to have a strong introduction to using the software. Updated for version 7.0, MATLAB Primer, Seventh Edition offers such an introduction as well as a “pocketbook” reference for everyday users of the software. It offers an intuitive language for expressing problems and solutions both numerically and graphically.The latest edition in this best-selling series, MATLAB Primer, Seventh Edition incorporates a number of enhancements such as changes to the desktop, new features for developing M-files, the JIT accelerator, and an easier way of importing Java classes. In addition to the features new to version 7.0, this book includes:A new section on M-Lint, the new debugger for M-filesA new chapter on calling Java from MATLAB and using Java objects inside the MATLAB workspaceA new chapter on calling Fortran from MATLABA new chapter on solving equations: symbolic and numeric polynomials, nonlinear equations, and differential equationsA new chapter on cell publishing, which replaces the “notebook” feature and allows the creation of Word, LaTeX, PowerPoint, and HTML documents with executable MATLAB commands and their outputsExpanded Graphics coverage-including the 3D parametrically defined seashells on the front and back coversWhether you are new to MATLAB, new to version 7.0, or simply in need of a hands-on, to-the-point reference, MATLAB Primer provides the tools you need in a conveniently sized, economically priced pocketbook.

Lateral Thinking – Edward De Bono

matet — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:12:23 +0000

In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls ‘vertical thinking’. This works well in simple situations – but we are at a loss when this approach fails. Lateral thinking is all about freeing up your imagination. Through a series of special techniques, in groups or working alone, Edward de Bono shows us how to look at problems from a variety of angles and in so doing offer up solutions that are as ingenious as they are effective. After reading this book you will become a much more productive and formidable thinker.

Basics Product Design: Material Thoughts – David Bramston

matet — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:09:56 +0000

Basics Product Design: Material Thoughts describes the various materials and processes available to product designers, and how to use and combine them. It encourages an experimental approach to product design and finishing.The book explores the thinking of leading designers and producers who challenge convention through curiosity and experimentation. It aims to promote a physical enquiry of materials and a mentality that is constantly asking what could be done if? Key contributors include: Alessi, Chris Kabel, Demakersvan, droog, Drummond Masterton, Ettore Sottsass, Front, Gene Kiegel, Industreal, Inflate, Ingo Maurer, Jaime Hayon, Jurgen Bey, Kartell, Maarten Baas, Mathias Bengtsson, Matthias Pliessnig, Memphis, molo, Philippe Starck, Shigeru Ban, Simon Heijdens, Stuart Haygarth, Stuart Walker, Studio Libertiny, Tejo Remy and Rene Veenhuizen.Other titles in the Basics Product Design series include: Idea Searching and Visual Conversations.

Islam and Muslims in Germany (Muslim Minorities) – Ala Al-Hamarneh

matet — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:09:24 +0000

In the European discourse of post 9/11 reality, concepts such as “Multiculturalism”, “Integration” and “European Islam” are becoming more and more topical. The empirically- based contributions in this volume aim to reflect the variety of current Muslim social practices and life-worlds in Germany. The volume goes beyond the fragmented methods of minority case studies and the monolithic view of Muslims as portrayed by mass media to present fresh theoretical approaches and in-depth analyses of a rich mosaic of communities, cultures and social practices. Issues of politics, religion, society, economics, media, art, literature, law and gender are addressed. The result is a vibrant state-of-the-art publication of studies of real-life communities and individuals.